Railway-car.



No. 778,831. PATENTED DEC. 27, 1904. H. J. BAYARD.

RAILWAY OAR. APPLICATION FILED MAR. 4, 1904.

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' N0."7'78,831. PATENTED DEC. 27, 1904.

H. J. BAYARD.

RAILWAY GAR.

APPLIOATION FILED MAE. 4,1904.

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PATENT OFFICE.

HYRAM J. BAYARD, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

RAILWAY-CAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 778,831, dated December27, 1904.

Application filed March 4, 1904:. Serial No. 196,625.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HYRAM J. BAYARD, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, and a resident of Chicago, Cook county, Illinois, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Railway-Cars, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to certain improvements in railway-cars, and moreespecially in that class of freight-cars which are provided withinclosed sides, as various kinds of boxcars, cattle-cars, and the like;and the object of the invention is to improve and simplify theconstruction of the bodies of the cars so as to afford increasedstrength to withstand the strains and wear to which they are ex posedand at the same time to permit of holding the car-body removably to thecar-platform, so as to be adapted for removal that it may be replaced bya body of other construction or omitted to adapt the car for use inconnection with freight of various kinds.

The invention consists in certain novel features of the construction,combination, and arrangement of the several parts of the improvedrailway-car whereby certain important advantages are attained and thedevice is rendered simpler, cheaper, and otherwise better adapted andmore convenient for use, all as will be hereinafter fully set forth.

The novel features of the invention will be carefully defined in theclaims.

In the accompanying drawings, which serve to illustrate my invention,Figure 1 is a side view showing a car constructed according to myinvention, certain portions of the sides of the same being broken out tobetter show the interior construction and arrangement. Fig. 2 is anenlarged sectional detail view showing certain means for holding theremovable carbody to the platform and which will be hereinafterdescribed more particularly. Fig. 3 is an enlarged sectional detail viewtaken in a plane at right angles to the plane of the section in Fig. 2and showing in addition to the features illustrated in Fig. 2 certainother features of the means for bracing and strengthening the car-body.Fig. 4. is an enlarged section taken horizontally and longitudinallythrough one of the sides of the car-bod y. Fig. 5 is a perspective viewshowing a fragment of one of the notched or halved braces for the sideof the car-body.

As shown in the views, 1 indicates the trucks, on which is supported thecar-platform 2, which is provided with tanks 3, extended lengthwisealong its opposite sides in a well-known way.

The tanks 3 have shallow end portions extended in the platform over thetrucks, but have a deeper central portion depending in the space betweenthe said trucks. In this way it will be seen that the car is adapted fortransportation of freight held in said tanks, as well as for solidfreight of various kinds supported on the platform 2.

The platform 2 is provided around its edges with strips 41 and 5, spacedapart, as seen in Fig. 2, and between these strips 4 and 5 areinterposed short wooden blocks 6, the ends of which are separated fromeach other, as seen in Fig. 1, wherein the outer strip 5 is omitted atone end of the car in such a Way as to produee between the blockssockets 7, in which are adapted to be received projections 12, extendeddown at suitable intervals from the under side of the car-body, which isthereby removably held to the platform in such a way that it may belifted off therefrom, the projections 12 being capable of being readilywithdrawn from said sockets 7, so that the car may be used as aplatform-car when its body is removed, or said body may be replaced byanother body of different kind to adapt the car to a different kind offreight.

The platform 2 of the car is provided with a floor extended upon itsupper surface, and the car-body has no such fioor, but is open at itsbottom and has around its lower edges sills 8, adapted to rest directlyupon the top of the platform 2 above the sockets 7 therein, said sills 8being of course omitted at the car-door, as seen at 9 in Fig. 1.

From the sills 8 there are extended upward at suitable intervalsvertical or upright posts 10, the lower end portions of which aremortised into the sills 8, as shown at 11 on the drawings, and the lowerextremities of which are extended below said sills and form the stakesor projections 12, above referred to, for holding the body in place uponthe platform.

Upon the standards or posts 10 are supported plates 13, whereon isupheld the carroof 14, and between each two of said standards oruprights 1O 10 are arranged a pair of oppositely-inclined and crossedbraces 16 and 17 which are alined in the same plane as the said uprights10 and have their lower and upper ends securely held in the sills 8 andplates 13, respectively, as indicated at 18 and 19. The central crossedportions of the said braces 16 and. 17 are held together, as shown at20, by a joint produced by cutting out each brace at such intersection,as indicated at 16 in Fig. 5, to receive the remaining portion of theother brace, so that at said intersection the braces are halved togetherin a well-known way.

The lower ends of the braces 16 and 17 are mortised in the sills 8 atopposite sides of the respective uprights or posts 10, the sills havingat each side of each post 10 an opening 18, forming a continuation ofthe opening through which the post 10 is passed and each such opening 18being provideu with a dovetailed or undercut outer wall. In assemblingthe parts of the structure the lower end of each brace 17 and 16 willhave a dovetailed surface formed on it to correspond with the undercutend wall of the opening 18, in which it is to be fitted, and before theuprights 10 are passed through the sills the braces 16 and 17 adjacentto each such post or upright 10 will be seated in its correspondingopening, with its beveled surface engaged on the undercut wall of itsopening 18, and after the posts are passed through the sills betweensuch braces 16 and 17 it will be understood that such posts willsecurely hold the braces against removal from the openings 18, whereby avery strong and rigid construction is attained at but slight expense. Asimilar construction may, if desired, be employed at the plates 13 also.

The uprights 10 and braces 16 and 17 serve for the attachment of theouter and inner sheathing 21 and 21 where such are employed, and theresultant structure is extremely strong and durable and is particularlywell adapted for use in connection with freight-cars, which must ofnecessity be cheaply as well as strongly constructed.

The sockets in which stakes or projections 12 are received are ofdimensions such as'to snugly receive said stakes or projections when thelatter are inserted in their sockets in such a Way as to hold the stakesor projections against pivotal movement and where necessary means may beprovided for holding the stakes or projections 12 within their sockets,and such means may be of any desired nature. Herein I have illustratedsuch a holding means comprising a series of bolts 10, passed through theinner and outer strips 1 and 5 of the platform and through the stakes orprojections, It will be evident that these bolts 10 will serve to holdthe stakes securely in their sockets when the body is on the car; butwhen it is desired to remove said body from the platform the bolts maybe readily removed.

From the above description it will be seen that the improved carconstructed according to my invention is of an extremely simple andinexpensive nature and is especially well adapted for use, since it isof a strong and rigid construction and is capable of being readilyconverted to adapt it for use with freight of various kinds.

It will also be obvious from the above description that the device iscapable of considerable modification without material departure from theprinciples and spirit of the invention, and for this reason I do notdesire to be understood as limiting myself to the pre: cise form andarrangement of the several parts of the device herein set forth incarrying out my invention in practice.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is*

'1. A car having a platform provided with alined inner and outer stripsalong its edges and having sockets produced between said strips incombination with a car-body having stakes or projections extended downfrom it for engagement in said sockets and devices passed through saidalined strips of the platform and through said stakes or projections ofthe car-body for holding the body on the platform, the sockets being ofdimensions to snugly receive said stakes or projections and the saidstakes or projections, when in the sockets, being held against pivotalmovement by engagement with the walls of the sockets.

2. A car having a body provided with sills and plates, uprights extendedvertically between the sills and plates and spaced apart and havinglower end portions passed through the sills and extended below the sameto form stakes or projections in combination with a platform havingsockets in which said stakes or projections are snugly received, thestakes or projections, when in said sockets being held against pivotalmovement by engagement with the walls of the sockets and bolts passedacross the sockets and through said stakes or projections to hold thebody in position on the platform.

3. A car having a body provided with sills and plates, uprights extendedvertically be- IOO tween the sills and plates and spaced apart, saidopenings against the undercut end Walls the sills having openingsthrough which the thereof. 10 lower ends of the uprights are passed andsaid Signed at Chicago this 16th day of Decemopenings being extendedbeyond opposite ber, 1903. sides of the uprights and having undercutHYRAM J. BAYARD. outer end walls in combination with inclined ll/Vitnesses: braces extended in the spaces between the J. D. CAPLINGER,

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uprights with lower beveled ends engaged in

